but if you've never read it you wouldn't know that. But if you have read it this movie is a lot of fun. Larry David is Howard Roark except he doesn't know it because he doesn't know who Howard Roark is. I thought that was pretty funny.
shareI've read it. I know that. Movie's still not funny.
shareDoesn't he relate to the Fountainhead when he watches it on TV?
I never read it because I know a man who did some selfish things and blamed it on the book. Which I guess is probably a good reason to read it.
Always be yourself... Unless you can be Batcatt
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Bump.
Started a thread when it premiered along the same lines. The discussion kind of went round and round, but I do think LD had a pretty thoughtful statement to make through his familiar comic plotting and stock characters.
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This is totally my own speculation, allegedly, etc., but I think the Howard Roark homage was largely a smokescreen to goof on Howard Stern - the car's ridiculous name evoking Stern-like humor, Stern's ostentatious McMansion with its own bowling alley in a similar community (The Hamptons), and the blond second wife.